A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 82 East County, Five Kingdoms War

Beidiguan

Under the continuous attack by the Wei army for half a month, Beidiguan was already on the verge of collapse. The defenders lost from 5,000 to less than 1,000, and they were still at the end of their strength.

Beidiguan once again repelled the Wei army's attack. In the past half month, they used all the methods, such as stone, gold soup, bed crossbow, fire attack, etc. Fortunately, the pass was completely built by Mohists, otherwise Three days ago, I could no longer resist it.

The guard general pulled the messenger and asked, "Where are the reinforcements?"

Xiao Bing said: "Three days ago I said there was still fifty miles left, but the mountain road is too difficult to walk. We will probably arrive today."

The guard had no choice but to do his best.

It seemed that Wei Wuhou had not defeated the Wei army's camp for half a month, and suffered heavy losses. Most of them were not lost in fighting, but due to the strange and unpredictable mechanisms of the White army.

Marquis Wu of Wei looked at the generals and ministers and asked, "Do you gentlemen and generals have any ideas?"

Everyone was silent.

Seeing this, Marquis Wu of Wei could only give up and asked: "Then does it make sense for us to attack again?"

A minister said: "Your Majesty, the attack on Beidi was to support Daliang. Although the pass has not been breached, it has also effectively held back the domestic power of the Bai Kingdom. How can I say it is meaningless?"

Wei Wuhou said: "Then continue to attack! But try to use less soldiers to fight and more bows and arrows to kill. In addition, I think the White Army's equipment is very advanced, so I decided to recruit skilled craftsmen from all over the world, otherwise Wei will suffer a big loss." of!"

The Golden Crow crossed the center, and the reinforcements from the Bai Kingdom finally arrived. There were not many, only five thousand people.

The reinforcements general looked at him with blood on his face, and the rattan armor on his body was in tatters. His right arm was also wrapped in a cloth strip and hung on his chest. His left hand was tightly trapped between the cloth strip and the hilt of the bronze sword.

"Brother Yuan, thank you for your hard work!"

"Haha, it would be great if you could come in time, otherwise I would lose the pass and how would I go to see the clan elders and the head of the family!"

Soon, the brand-new White Army flag was hung on the dilapidated Beidiguan city wall. Wei Wuhou knew that the White Army's reinforcements were coming. If you want to attack again, you will not only have to pay a lot of money, but it will also take a month. He had no choice but to withdraw his troops, but he also remembered the secret loss this time, and he would pay more attention to Bai Guo's movements.

The Wei army withdrew. This time, Bai Guo won the surprise battle.

The Bai Kingdom occupied a large city in Daliang, two middle cities in Shanyang and Zhongmu, and more than a dozen small cities in the Wei Kingdom, and occupied all the territory of the Wei Kingdom along the Yellow River and near the Taihang Mountains.

Soon, the Bai Kingdom sent a large number of officials to govern these places. The Bai Kingdom established the newly occupied area as Dongjun and made Daliang the county seat of Dongjun. It left 50,000 people to garrison Dongjun. Bai Wei led 10,000 wounded soldiers. Return to the mountain.

According to statistics, the population of Dongjun is approximately 500,000. At this point, the population of Bai Kingdom has increased to 2 million. Bai Wei ordered to continue recruiting soldiers in the four counties. After making up the 100,000 soldiers, he recruited another 100,000 soldiers. One hundred thousand soldiers were left in Taihang Mountain and one hundred thousand soldiers were stationed in Dong County, including 50,000 in Daliang, 25,000 in Shanyang, and 25,000 in Zhongmou.

After Wei Guo heard that Bai Guo occupied Wei's land east of the river, he immediately sent envoys to Bai Guo, hoping to form an alliance with Bai Guo. However, after careful consideration, Bai Guo thought that the alliance was a case of equal strength. In view of the There is only one big city of Puyang left in the Wei Kingdom, plus more than a dozen small cities. The Bai Kingdom can accept the surrender of the Wei Kingdom. As a vassal state of the Bai Kingdom, the Bai Kingdom guarantees the independence of the Wei Kingdom. However, in the event of a war, the Wei Kingdom will Troops must be sent to fight with the White Army.

Seeing that the Bai Kingdom was powerful, Wei Jun also considered that his relationship with the Bai Kingdom was better than that of other countries. As long as he could preserve the country, everything would be easy. So Weiguo officially became a vassal state of Baiguo. At the same time, Baiguo accepted more than a dozen small cities from Weiguo, and only reserved one Puyang for Weiguo. This increased the population of Baiguo by another hundred thousand.

After annexing a county of Wei State, Bai State calmed down and digested the results of the war.

In the same year, Tian He, the Tian clan of Qi State, was established as a prince and was listed in the genealogy of the Zhou royal family.

Three hundred and eighty-five years of the Bai Kingdom
Wei State built the cities of Anyi and Wangyuan. And made Anyi the capital of Wei.

In the same year, Wei State took advantage of the civil strife in Qin State and appointed Wu Qi to attack Qin State's Hexi territory. In the same year, the state of Qi attacked the state of Lu, and the state of Lu was defeated. South Korea attacked the state of Zheng and captured Yangcheng.

Three hundred and ninety years of the Bai Kingdom

Bai Wei saw that there was still a large amount of land of Zhao State to the east of Taihang Mountain, and thought of the offensive and defensive alliance of Zhao, Wei and Han. In order to prevent himself from being attacked from both sides, he decided to unite with Qi State to attack Zhao State and take Zhao State's territory east of Taihang Mountain. , so he sent envoys to persuade Qi to attack Zhao.

The capital of Qi was Linzi, and Qi Hou Tianhe received the envoys from the Bai Kingdom.

"I wonder what important business your envoy has to come to our country of Qi?"

Bai Shi saluted and said, "I'm here to avenge Qi!"

Qi Hou asked: "I really don't know who I have a grudge against!"

Bai Shi said: "Have you forgotten that Zhao, Wei and Han attacked Qi three years ago?"

"Hmph! How can I forget, but the three families of Zhao, Wei and Han were the three former ministers of the Jin Kingdom. There is an offensive and defensive alliance between them. If I want to regain the lost territory, it will be extremely difficult! Is it for nothing that I came here this time?" "Exactly. I, the Bai State, want to sign an alliance with the Qi State. Five years ago, we drove the Wei people out of the east of the Yellow River. Now only the Zhao State is left east of the Taihang Mountains. I think our two countries will work together to drive the Zhao State out. Then draw Zhongshan into our alliance.

In this way, isn't there any threat around Qi State? "

The Marquis of Qi was very moved and asked: "I wonder how this city is divided?"

Ambassador Bai said: "Each of the two countries depends on their own abilities!"

Qi Hou said: "Okay, this time with Bai Guo's help, I don't believe that we can turn the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei and Han upside down!"

Soon, the two countries signed an alliance and agreed to jointly attack Zhao State. Bai State was responsible for blocking the western armies of South Korea and Wei. Qi State was responsible for being the main force in attacking Zhao State, and Bai State was the auxiliary. The two countries agreed to jointly launch troops after the spring seedlings the next year.

Three hundred and ninety-one years of the Bai Kingdom

After planting the spring seedlings, Bai and Qi raised troops and declared war on the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei, and Han, using the excuse that Zhao, Wei, and Han had attacked Qi without any reason three years ago. For a time, the world's attention shifted to the vicinity of Taihang Mountain.

After the Three Kingdoms received the news, they also gathered their armies to prepare to resist or even counterattack Qi, while Wei was preparing to regain its lost territory.

The State of Qi sent 400,000 troops, the State of Bai 200,000, the State of Zhao 300,000, the State of Wei 300,000, and the State of South Korea 200,000. The total number of troops on both sides is 1.4 million, which is the largest total number of troops in history.

The Baiqi Allied Forces numbered 600,000, and the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces numbered 800,000.

Although there is a gap in military strength between the two sides, the Bai-Qi coalition occupies an advantageous location. In the early stage, there were only 100,000 defenders of Zhao Army in the east of Taihang Mountain. Therefore, it was very easy in the early stage. At the cost of losing 10,000 to 20,000 people, Bai and Qi relied on Bai's arrow rain tactics to capture all the Zhao cities east of the Taihang Mountains in half a month.

Bai and Qi need to divide their forces to resist the army of the Three Kingdoms Alliance.

The current situation is that the Bai Qi coalition forces are 580,000, and the Three Kingdoms coalition forces are 700,000. After Bai Guo asked Wei Guo to send 10,000 people and Qi Guo recruited 10,000 people, the number of Bai and Qi coalition forces returned to 600,000.

Now the battlefield is divided into two parts. One part is the army of the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces from Zhongshan Kingdom, which is opposed by the Qi Kingdom. The other part is the army of the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces from South Korea, which is faced by the Bai Kingdom.

In the direction of Zhongshan, Zhao's 200,000 and Wei's 200,000 were against Qi's 400,000. In the direction of Zheng, South Korea's 200,000 and Wei's 100,000 were against Bai's 200,000.

The main battlefield of the Zhongshan Kingdom is in Xiaquyang, located at the junction of the three kingdoms where Zhongshan, Qi and Bai occupied Zhao's territory. There are two battlefields in the direction of South Korea, one is Shanyang City on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the other is Daliang City on the south bank of the Yellow River.

Because Daliang City is higher than Shanyang City and has complete city defenses, the Bai Kingdom placed the main battlefield in Shanyang, leaving 60,000 troops in Daliang City and 100,000 troops stationed in Shanyang City. Under Sun Bin's suggestion, Bai Guo stationed 10,000 people in case of any eventuality, and left another 30,000 people behind Baiguan. As a surprise soldier.

The coach of the Han-Wei coalition was Wu Qi of Wei State, and the coach of Bai State was Bai Wei, but Sun Bin, as Bai Wei's general, stayed by his side for consultation.

In April, 200,000 troops from Han and Wei came to Shanyang City. Wu Qi used 100,000 people to surround Daliang to contain the soldiers and horses in Daliang City.

The coalition forces set up camp. Wu Qi looked at the city in front of him and asked the scout general next to him: "How many people are there on the other side?"

The scout general said: "Please forgive me, general. The enemy's scouts are too powerful and we cannot get any advantage at all. But I think that except for the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Daliang City, all the soldiers and horses of the Bai Kingdom should be in Shanyang City." ”

Wu Qi looked at the scout general and said, "Should?"

The scout general was furious at Wu Qi's eyes, and he quickly knelt down and said, "General, please forgive me!"

Wu Qi waved his hand and signaled him to retreat. At this time, the Korean general next to him said, "Are the scouts of Bai Kingdom so powerful?"

Wu Qi said: "It's not surprising. There are many Mo soldiers in the Bai Kingdom, and there are many assassins and strong scouts. They are not enough. What I am worried about is the Mo soldiers' city defense equipment. I heard that the Mo soldiers are unparalleled in the world!"

The Korean general buzzed and said, "You'll know after you hit him." Wu Qi also agreed.

So, two days later, the coalition forces built siege equipment and prepared to attack the city. Two hundred thousand troops surrounded Shanyang City. Because Shanyang is north of the Taihang Mountains, Wu Qi placed 20,000 troops on the north and 20,000 troops on the east and west sides. 40,000 were ordered and 100,000 were placed in the south of the city as the main direction of attack.

The purpose is to drive the White Army into the Taihang Mountains, which is also the three encirclements in the art of war.

Bai Wei looked at the slowly advancing coalition forces in the south of the city and ordered: "The main attack direction of the Korean and Wei armies is the south gate. Let the north gate send 10,000 people to the south gate." "Yes!"

It turned out that Bai Wei didn't know the main direction of the coalition's attack, so he placed 20,000 troops at each of the four gates and left a reserve of 20,000 troops in the city.

The current garrison force is 30,000 at the south gate, 20,000 at the east and west gate, 10,000 at the north gate, 20,000 reserve troops, and 3,000 Baiji guards. That's right, Wu Qi missed the Bai Kingdom's 3,000 White Guards, because the White Guards had not appeared in the eyes of the world for dozens or hundreds of years.

Soon a fierce siege began.

(End of this chapter)